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I HAD intended to have gone into a family history of the Ravenshoes, from the time of Canute to that of her present Majesty, following it down through every change and revolution, both secular and religious; which would have been deeply interesting, but which would have taken more hard reading than one cares to undertake for nothing.

Preface

The language used in telling the following story is not (as I hope the reader will soon perceive) the Author's, but Mr. William Marston's.

The Author's intention was, while telling the story, to develop, in the person of an imaginary narrator, the character of a thoroughly good-hearted and tolerably clever man, who has his fingers (as he would say himself) in every one's pie, and who, for the life of him, cannot keep his own counsel - that is to say, the only person who, by any possibility, could have collected the mass of family gossip which makes up the tale.

Had the Author told it in his own person, it would have been told with less familiarity, and, as he thinks, you would not have laughed quite so often.

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Ravenshoe
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Preface

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Chapter 1. An Account of the Family of Ravenshoe

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Chapter 2. Supplementary to the Foregoing

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Chapter 3. In which Our Hero's Troubles Begin

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Chapter 4. Father Mackworth

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Chapter 5. Ranford

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Chapter 6. The Warren Hastings

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Chapter 7. In which Charles and Lord Welter Distinguish Themselves at the University

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Chapter 8. John Marston

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Chapter 9. Adelaide

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Chapter 10. Lady Ascot's Little Nap

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Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

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Chapter 13. The Black Hare

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Chapter 14. Lord Saltire's Visit, and Some of His Opinions

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Chapter 15. Charles's "Liddell and Scott."

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Chapter 16. Marston's Arrival

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Chapter 17. In which There is Another Shipwreck

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Chapter 18. Marston's Disappointment

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Chapter 19. Ellen's Flight

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Chapter 20. Ranford Again

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Chapter 21. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos

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Chapter 22. The Last Glimpse of Oxford

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Chapter 23 The Last Glimpse of the Old World

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Chapter 24. The First Glimpse of the New World

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Chapter 25

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Chapter 26. The Grand Crash

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Chapter 27 The Coup De Grace

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Chapter 28. Flight

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Chapter 29. Charles's Retreat Upon London

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Chapter 30. Mr. Sloane

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Chapter 31. Lieutenant Hornby

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Chapter 32. Some of the Humours of a London Mews

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Chapter 33 A Glimpse of Some Old Friends

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Chapter 34. In which Fresh Mischief is Brewed

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Chapter 35

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Chapter 36. The Derby

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Chapter 37. Lord Welter's Menage

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Chapter 38. The House Full of Ghosts

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Chapter 39 Charles's Explanation with Lord Welter

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